Overview
- The Juvenile Court of L'Aquila removed three children from an Anglo‑Australian family near Palmoli, placed them in a group home, and suspended parental authority.
- Judges cited social‑services and Carabinieri reports from September and October 2024 that flagged school nonattendance, social isolation, unsafe and unsanitary housing without water, electricity, gas or a bathroom, and gaps in medical checks including vaccinations.
- The family's lawyer says he will appeal and has submitted documents asserting authorization for home education in 2025–26, an idoneità diploma for the eldest, an engineer’s structural certificate, solar power and wood heating, a planned bathroom, and vaccinations completed except for a booster.
- The court order records a parental remark requesting €50,000 per child to vaccinate, which the lawyer describes as provocative while stating the children have pediatric follow‑ups and only a booster outstanding.
- Carlo Nordio discussed the case with Giorgia Meloni, called the removal an extremely painful act, and is evaluating sending inspectors, as the magistrates’ association defends the decision on technical grounds and Matteo Salvini denounces it; the father says the children are distressed in the group home.